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BlackBerry has announced it will license 240,000 Android applications from Amazon - in a move that may presage a downgrading of its internal developer relations efforts for its stuttering BB10 software.

Independent artists could disappear from YouTube "in a matter of days" after the Google video service confirmed it was dropping content from independent labels that have not signed up for its upcoming subscription music service.

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